Kempe Stained Glass

Right: Logo of Alfred
Tombleson comprising of his initials on a gold patterned
background from the early days of the studio. Usually
found in the top tracery of a window and very often in
opposite position to that of Kempe's shield logo.

Left: After 1895 the shield logo was replaced
by a single wheatsheaf usually in the bottom left hand
corner of a stained glass window.

Right: On
Kempe's death in 1907 this was replaced with the single
golden wheatsheaf with a black tower superimposed on the
head. The last window of the firms production had the
tower laid on its side to denote the last of its line.

Detail of Singing Angels dated 1870 from the vestry
of St. John Divine. Frankby. Cheshire.

Left: Virgin and child from the transept of
Holy Ascension. Upton-by-Chester. Dated 1871. (Now stored
in a crate)

Right: St. Thomas in St. Peter's
Church, Heswall, Cheshire. Dated 1891. West end of the
North Aisle.

Left: 1890 detail of a North Aisle Window of
St. Elizabeth of Hungary. St Bridgets. West Kirby.
Cheshire.

Right: Dog detail in the South Aisle
Window of 1905. St. Johns Church. Frieth. Bucks.

Left: 1933. St Peter. Easthope, Shropshire.
Crucifixion in The South of the Chancel.

"In
honour of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Martyrs, and
of His Apostle St. Philip who suffered martyrdom on the
Cross, this window is dedicated as a memorial to Philippa
Jessie, daughter of Ralph Augustus Benson of Lutwyche, by
George Reginald Benson. A.D. mcmxxxiii."

Right: St George in the South Aisle, Church of
St Mary and St Helen. Neston. Cheshire. 1905

left: Virgin and child, Holy Trinity Church,
Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire, designed and made by Francis Skeat.

right: The Church of The Holy
Trinity, Old Clee,
Near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, desgned and made by Francis Skeat.

This South
Aisle, Easternmost window as photographed in 1993
is dedicated to Bishop St Hugh of Lincoln and was
first designed as a Masonic memorial window in
1960, but made without the Masonic emblems, and
inserted shortly after.

Other Stained Glass

Left: The Sower window from Lincoln Cathedral.
Painted by Ward & Hughes in 1869 and deliberately
based on geometric design and foliage patterns taken from
13th Century originals.

Right: Ruskington Near
Sleaford. Lincs. in the Chancel South Window. Christ
Blessing with the inscription - MAGISTER - for
Master in a banner above the figure.

A memorial to John Hanwell, teacher and layreader 1904
to 1990, who is shown with a group of children in the
base. Signed with a wheelhead cross lower right for the
Celtic Studios in Swansea and designed by H.R.Thomas, the
window was inserted in 1991.

Holy Trinity Church. Long Melford. Suffolk. Sir Thomas
Clopton and wife. Donor figures take prominence in the second
half of the 15th Century. This church has a great collections of
this type of glass.

Christ The Good Shepherd at St Laurences church, Corringham,
Lincolnshire by Christopher Whall in 1914 ? (Note the inscription
date below). Said to be Whall's excellent draughtsmanship,
mastery of paint and jewel-like Norman slab glass (a difficult
medium to work with.)

"Remember Mary Beckett of Somerby in this Parish who
died on the 21st day of February 1915 at whose cost this Church
was restored 1882- 1884"

This brilliant panel by Thomas
Willement was installed in his own home at Davington Priory. Kent.
It shows his exceptional talent as a heraldic glass painter. He
was heraldic artist to King George IV and stained glass artist to
Queen Victoria and a renowned scholar.

One of nine medallions from a Tree of
Jesse Window of about 1218 from the Romanesque choir of the
Cathedral of Freiburg im Breisgau. Each medallion encloses a
figure with its own label & attribute and were once arranged
in a series of vertical rows of Christ's ancestors in the centre
and prophets at the sides. The work of Nicholas of Verdun.

The style in this case has reduced the Jesse Tree to just a
small foliage spray.

Right: The roundel of October,
one of the "Labours of the Months" :- This roundel of a
seedsower is one of a set of the "Labours of the Months"
Representing the month of October it is thought to have been
painted in Norwich about 1480 - 1500 and originally came from
Coslany just outside of the city.

Right: Said to be the earliest
of Christ's ancestors, Adam was placed in the clerestory of
Canterbury Cathedral as one of a set of genealogical figures.

Adam digging is from the late 12th century and shows him using
a wooden spade with its sharp digging edge sheathed in metal.
Note also the skin apron, possibly supposed to represent camel
skin.

One of the windows which were installed in 1747 and were
brought there from the house of the Duke of Chandos, Canons, Near
Edgeware. They were designed by Francisco Slater and made by
Joshua Price in 1719- 1721.

Left: This window is one of the
many beautifully successful 'Landscape' windows using the pink
and purple hues of skies mixed with realistic greens of
landscapes which are so typical of the Tiffany Studios.

His habit of inserting these scenic windows with complete
disregard for any tracery lines endeared him to some of his
clients but also incensed his critics and particularly some of
the architectural fraternity.

This is the Charles Duncan and William Hegardt memorial window
from the Pilgrim Congregational Church. Duluth. Minnesota. USA.
from 1924.

Right: "The Physical Journey".
One of a set of clerestory windows by Cedar
Prest, an Australian Artist, in St. Peter's Cathedral,
Adelaide, Australia.

Left: "Briar Rose", a glass panel
designed and made by Michael StokesBA(Hons) of M.D.S. Stained Glass.